(architecture) Decoration or ornamental molding resembling a string of beads or of a semicircular cross section. / The beads or bead-forming quality of certain liquors.

present participle of bead

plural of beading

Made from, or decorated with, beads. / Having formed in beads or a bead-like shape.

simple past tense and past participle of bead

(archaic) Prayer, later especially with a rosary. / Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.

(intransitive) To form into a bead. / (transitive) To apply beads to. / (transitive) To form into a bead. / (transitive) To cause beads to form on (something).

A beaded necklace.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bead

plural of bead